Johnny Raducanu

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Born in Romania the 1st of December 1931 in Braila - d September 19, 2011. Johnny Raducanu was descended from a long line of Gypsy musicians.During his young years, he discovers on his older brothers’ gramophone « Caravan » and « Prelude to a kiss » by Duke Ellington. Jazz is a revelation, even if at that time Johnny believes that « Jazz » is the name of an artist, and not that of a musical trend. A premonition perhaps, given that 20 years later, the so-called Duke Ellington nicknamed him “Mister Jazz of Romania”, during a performance in Bucharest.At 19, in 1950, he joins the music academy of Bucharest, where he piles up subjects: chamber music, harmony and above all bass, the instrument of a long family tradition. In 1957 he plays in Moscow with I. Körössy at the piano and P. Osadici at the battery. The trio is noticed by the accordionist Marcel Azola (Michel Legrand’s father), chairman of the panel of judges, who awards them the gold medal. He asks Johnny where in the States he learned Jazz, Johnny answers: « I have never been there».From the 50’s, Johnny will keep a total devoutness for his art,he plays with passion in the different jazz bands and clubs before their closure by the communist power. The government imposes his censorship and exclude words music: a godsend for our musician, who can introduce without barriers instrumental jazz in the intellectual groups of the country. Thanks to this, he records in 1966 one of the first Romanian jazz discs: “Jazz in Trio”.At

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Jazz bestament - paris 2005

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Romanian Jazz

Singuratatea... meseria mea

Jazz Behind The Carpathians

Confesiuni

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Romanian Jazz: Jazz from the Electrecord Archives 1966-1978

Jazz Made in Romania

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Jazz In My Country

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Romanian Jazz - Jazz From The Electrecord Archives 1966-1978

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Retrospectiva Jazz - Jazz in Trio/Jazz in Tara Mea

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Jazz Antifanariot (in memoriam Horia Bernea)

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Jazz în tara mea / Jazz In My Country

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